12758 - Biochemical Propaedeutics

Academic Year 2006/2007

  • Docente: Maurizio Pirini
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: BIO/10
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Aquaculture and Ichthyopathology (cod. 0403)

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed at providing the students with the fundamental concepts which allow them  to adequately understand the structure and the chemical features of the main inorganic compounds of biological interest and their properties in solution.

Readings/Bibliography

  1. Binaglia L. - Giardina B., Chimica e propedeutica biochimica, II ed., McGraw -Hill
  2. Raggi A., Chimica generale per le scienze biomediche, ETS, Pisa
  3. Atkins P. - Jones L., Principi di chimica, Zanichelli
  4. Transparencies and notes from the lessons.

Teaching methods

The course is accompanied by some practicals and, in agreement with students, by auto-evaluation multiple-choice or open-answer tests  on previously taught subjects.

Assessment methods

Learning will be checked by a final oral test. During the course, in accordance with students, students may be asked to do written multiple-choice or open-answer tests; positive results may proportionally contribute to the final mark. Students who do not perform the tests during the course or do not achieve positive results can participate to the final oral exam consisting of some questions,  deepened and discussed and including brief exercises.

Teaching tools

Blackboard, transparency projector, PC, video-recorder, laboratories.

Links to further information

http://www.acquacoltura.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Pirini